Thursday, October 27, 2016

ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR in Chrome

Chrome users were unable to get to the Google search page and were receiving a "This web page is not available" message.  The page itself displayed an error: ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Other web pages loaded fine and Google was accessible from other browsers.

It turns out that the problem was/is an experimental feature called Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) that is designed to speed up secure browsing.   Turning off this feature enabled Google to load correctly in Chrome:

  1. Open Chrome
  2. Open a new tab
  3. Type "chrome://flags/" in the address bar
  4. Find "Experimental QUIC protocol"
  5. Select "disable" from the drop-down menu
  6. Restart Chrome

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i encountered an error with Chrome browser after a regular update. Google Chrome was not loading pages correctly and giving the webpage error: ERR_QUIC_PROTOCOL_ERROR or saying “The app is currently unreachable” or This web page is not available” when using Google sites
The fix is quite simple:
https://www.errorsolutions.tech/error/err_quic_protocol_error/
Solution 1. Disable Experimental QUIC protocol